John Carpenter's current reputation as a spent force is undeserved, even if he's not made much recently that knocked anyone's socks off. This one is more a step in the right direction than a fully fledged return to form. Amber Heard plays a young amnesiac in a psychiatric institution trying to figure out why a ghostly apparition/zombie thing is brutally killing her fellow patients. Unfortunately, the audience is way ahead of her – we've seen this many times before. The denouement is visible from a distance; a shame if you recall how expertly Carpenter unleashed the powerful climaxes of The Thing et al. Still, it's a well-made film, with some finely crafted shocks and a steady pace that almost seems stately in these days of fast-cut horror.